I had a conversation like this with a business that had been around for decades and suddenly grew 100x because some market they were in “took off”. They had bui

I had a conversation like this with a business that had been around for decades and suddenly grew 100x because some market they were in “took off”. They had built up decades of integration with a legacy database that was single threaded and hence they couldn’t scale it. Given the urgency and the kind of money involved, I offered to set up a gaming PC for them using phase change cooling. Sadly they just made the staff work longer hours to catch up with the paperwork.